The girl and the cigarette

The girl and the cigarette is a sign of dystopian literature (the literature of the corrupt city) in the twenty-first century, but it is a satirical dystopia that lightly exposes the frantic world of ideals, dreams, and values until lightness becomes a counterpart to heaviness and the being becomes unbearable. A novel published in 2005, yet it sometimes predicted in a general and detailed manner what would happen in Syria, for example, in the early years of the second decade, as the writer depicts scenes of terrorist entertainment with their victims, recording a narrative and intuitive precedence for what the whole world would see later on television screens. A cigarette saves the life of a condemned man, who then leaves the depths of prison to the arenas of glory and fame with the support of the tobacco industry lobbyists, and a cigarette turns a worker’s life upside down, plunging him into the lowest depths. Between all this, the writer sends many messages: condemning social hypocrisy by dedicating slogans of "care for childhood" instead of "totalitarian ideas," and calling for attention to a human model almost forgotten: the productive old man, from whose shoulder flesh humanity feeds, and who gains nothing but neglect.